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Database Administrator

PopReach
Bangalore
2 years ago
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PopReach is a free-to-play game publisher acquiring and optimizing proven, profitable games and game franchises. With over 140 smart and creative professionals at studios in Vancouver, Toronto, London and Bangalore, we are 100% focused on making great games available for download on your phone, tablet, or desktop.

Founded in 2015 by some of the most successful individuals in the mobile games business, PopReach is looking for people who know what it takes to excel in that environment: determination, self-directedness, creative problem solving, and an A+ team player . If you want to make great games with great people, this is a great opportunity for you!

The DevOps team helps PopReach’s internal customers creating not only a platform to host the games but also accompanying a game during its entire life: before its launch (architecture design, technology R&D, tool recommendation, etc.) and after its launch (operations, reporting and metrics, 24/7 monitoring and administration and incidents/request management).

As a Database Administrator, you will work alongside developers and DevOps Administrators to bring forward a deeply specialized knowledge of various database technologies to ensure that they are properly deployed, stable, sized and monitored with a minimum level of manual operation. Your role will be to work with colleagues and production teams on our many challenges, issues or features by proposing and executing efficient strategies to tackle challenges related to databases.

What You’ll Do:

  • Take full ownership of all databases that power PopReach games
  • Responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading databases
  • Lead database administration tasks including security, backup, capacity planning, performance-tuning, disaster recovery and resolving a broad range of database related issues
  • Build or implement tools to monitor availability, latency, performance, capacity
  • Design and improve the architecture of our production systems, while also improving the developer experience of working with large distributed databases
  • Guide development teams with recommendations on their databases to ensure they create stable, scalable and secure solutions on premises or in the cloud that make it easy for developers to use our infrastructure
  • Manage and provide mentorship to other junior members of the database team
  • Work with developers and the product management team to understand requirements, and provide data requests as necessary
  • Develop strategies for migrating and upgrading various environments
  • Investigate, provide root cause analysis (RCA) of related issues, and provide recommendations
  • Available to work on an on-call basis, and available when required by the team

Wha t You Bring:

  • At least 2 years experience with MySQL, MongoDB, and Couchbase. Knowledge of PostgreSQL and Oracle is an asset
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies – AWS RDS or Aurora, DynamoDB, Snow Plow
  • Demonstrated experience in a DevOps environment, preferably working with an agile methodology
  • Experience with administering caching tools such as Redis and Memcache
  • Should be familiar with at least two scripting languages (such as Bash, Python, Perl, Java, PHP)
  • Knowledge of monitoring instances, InnoDB engine, capacity planning of databases and forecast required hardware requirements
  • Ability to detect database server related CPU, memory, I/O, disk space and other resource contention issues
  • Possess an deep understanding of OS, network, storage, memory , OS variables primarily on Linux variants
  • Strong personal and leadership skills to be able to manage a team of motivated individuals
  • Eager to learn new technologies

At PopReach, we embrace and value diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We strive to grow and foster an amazing team that appreciates a variety in backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills. We truly thank you for your interest, we'd love to hear from you!

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